ESL User Manual
Table of Contents
1. Features and Specifications ................................................................................................ 5
1.1 Abstract ............................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Physical Features ............................................................................................................................... 5
1.2.1 Dimensions and Weight ............................................................................................................... 5
1.3 Environmental Specifications .............................................................................................................. 5
1.3.1 Operating Temperature and Humidity (EE200) ............................................................................ 5
1.3.2 Storage Temperature and Humidity (EE200) ............................................................................... 5
1.4 Interface Specifications ....................................................................................................................... 6
1.5 Hardware Specifications ..................................................................................................................... 6
1.6 Electrical Specifications ...................................................................................................................... 6
1.6.1 Electrical Characteristics .............................................................................................................. 6
1.6.2 Main Battery: ................................................................................................................................ 7
1.7 Serial Number ..................................................................................................................................... 8
EBS-10 .................................................................................................................................................. 8
EE200 ................................................................................................................................................... 8
1.8 Safety .................................................................................................................................................. 8
Shock .................................................................................................................................................... 8
Temperature Conditions ........................................................................................................................ 8
Foreign Materials .................................................................................................................................. 8
Other ..................................................................................................................................................... 8
2. Solution Overview ................................................................................................................. 9
3. Getting started ..................................................................................................................... 10
3.1 Setting up the Hardware and Software ............................................................................................. 10
3.1.1 Installing Elements of the ESL Kit Software ............................................................................... 10
3.1.2 Installing the base station ........................................................................................................... 11
3.1.3 Installing the ESLs ..................................................................................................................... 11
3.1.4 Installing the Optional Barcode Terminal ................................................................................... 12
3.2 Linking a Back Office System to the ESL Server .............................................................................. 12
3.3 Resetting the ESL System ................................................................................................................ 12
3.3 Designing the ESL image layout ....................................................................................................... 13
4. Back Office ........................................................................................................................... 14
4.1 Database format ............................................................................................................................... 14
5. ESL Server Application ...................................................................................................... 16
5.1 Handling of incoming CSV files from the Back Office ....................................................................... 16
5.2 Handling of modified ESL-product links (linked.csv) ......................................................................... 17
5.3 Detecting New/changed ESL image and Configuration Files ........................................................... 18
5.4 Configuring ESLs .............................................................................................................................. 19
5.4.1 Associate interval ....................................................................................................................... 20
5.4.2 Poll Info Ratio ............................................................................................................................. 20
5.4.3 Poll Interval ................................................................................................................................ 20
5.4.4 Poll timeout ................................................................................................................................ 21
5.4.5 Scan channels ............................................................................................................................ 21
5.5 ESL status information ...................................................................................................................... 21
5.6 Configuring of base stations ............................................................................................................. 21
5.6.1 Configuring the RF Channel ....................................................................................................... 22
5.6.2 Changing the Name of a Base Station ....................................................................................... 23
5.6.3 Configuring the Ethernet Settings .............................................................................................. 23
5.7 Setup of the ESL server application .................................................................................................. 26
5.7.1 Base stations .............................................................................................................................. 26
